Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 21:32:55 +0400 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netmap pipes Message-ID: <20150103173255.GD49169@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <20150103172139.GB95134@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20150103164035.GC49169@zxy.spb.ru> <20150103172139.GB95134@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 06:21:39PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 08:40:35PM +0400, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > Can anybody explain netmap pipes (more then netmap(4))?
> > How use it?
> > How it works?
> > pipes works over existing network adapter in netmap mode?
> > Or indepened (can I create netmap pipe named 'some_strange_name')?
> > What purpose of master and slave?
>
> think of pipes as regular netmap ports connected back to back,
> (or as two ports on a VALE switch, if you like).
> They are unrelated to network devices (though the name indicates
> how they share memory, but forget that for the time being);
> are created using the "strange names" like valeX:Y{0 and valeX:Y}0
> (which I realize are not yet in the manpage, sorry);
can I use names other then valeX:Y? for example 'inside0'?
> and you have master and slave because need to name both endpoints.
I create pipe with many slaves (NIOCREGIF with nr_arg1=16, for
example), how I can use this? Writing to master replicated to all
slaves? Writing to any slaves reading from master? Or unidirected?
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